Program Options

During our annual Summer Institute, visitors engage with Olin faculty and one another to explore topics likeDesigning Student-Centered Learning Experiences. Our Summer Institute offers a range of extended immersions into Olin's approach to co-design, providing an inviting on-ramp to extended collaboration. The 2018 Summer Institute will be held June 4-8, 2018.

Workshops and Consultations

The Collaboratory runs a variety of targeted programs and provides consultation services for institutions facing particular challenges. These can be held on your campus or ours. Examples include:

Catalyzing and Sustaining Curricular Changes

Gender and Engineering:Unpacking the Student Experience

Design Thinking

Course Design for Intrinsic Motivation

Engineering Innovation:An Interdisciplinary Immersion

Catalyzing Faculty Transformation Throughout New England

For New England colleges and universities, we are able to offer a collaboration sponsored by The Davis Educational Foundation. Catalyzing Faculty Transformation Throughout New England will provide up to 75% tuition scholarships to Designing Student-Centered Learning Experiences for teams of up to five faculty from two schools in the six-state New England region to attend the Collaboratory Summer Institute in 2018, and may be preceded by an introductory workshop at your institution. Participating teams need not necessarily represent only engineering programs; all educational disciplines and types of schools (liberal arts, community colleges, etc.) interested in innovative curricular change will be considered.

Participant Feedback

“It’s good we have Olin!”

“It was amazing—I want more!”

“I’m inspired and who I am is reinforced. I was an Olin-like student who went through a traditional engineering program. I never knew where I fit but through natural career development I’ve found myself here passionate about the future and excited to know this thinking exists.”

“Experience was even better than my high expectations.”

“You are doing remarkable and innovative things here at Olin, and I am inspired!”

“Far exceeded my expectations.”

Olin College of Engineering

An undergraduate engineering institution exploring innovative approaches to engineering education since its founding in 1997.